Pittsford, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) - Joe Brady is now just over a week into his first training camp as the full-time offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills.
Brady first took over as offensive coordinator on an interim basis last season when the team fired Ken Dorsey after a Week 10 loss to the Denver Broncos. After some success offensively toward the tail end of the 2023 season and into the postseason, the Bills formally removed the interim tag this past January.
This isn't Brady's first rodeo as an offensive coordinator in the NFL. He was first hired by the Carolina Panthers to be their offensive play-caller in 2020, where he spent a year-and-a-half before being fired and joining the Bills in 2022 as the quarterbacks coach.
Brady hopes to not only build off the experience he gained from this past season as offensive coordinator, but also grow from the last time he called plays with the Panthers.
"Plays that I would have ran when I was calling plays at LSU would have no shot at working in nowadays football, both schematically but also understanding the type of quarterback that you have. The defenses are changing," said Brady while appearing on the "Jeremy and Joe Show" on Thursday at Bills training camp. "Also, they're changing how they're playing elite quarterbacks like Josh, so the difference, the style of play from 2020 to now is very different."
As an offense, Brady understands the importance of being able to grow over a year-by-year basis, even if the unit was one of the best offenses in a given year.
"If you just think you're just gonna be able to just, 'Hey, let's just take that playbook, just run that the next year.' The best people are studying you, they're going to find ways to try to find a way to stop you. We've got to just always keep that without losing who we are, and find ways to continue to get better," Brady said with Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase.
One of the main focuses for the Bills offense this season is to continue the success of the passing game without the likes of wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis. One of the main components to that, though, remains quarterback Josh Allen and his improvements with ball security.
"The big thing with Josh is he's falling in love with being bored. I mean that as greatness, those little details of the boring things. If we overlook the mechanics, if we overlook, 'Hey, you know what, you've got a lot of time on task with this play, let's do something else,' those things start to slide," Brady explained. "You can see that he put a lot of time in the offseason refining some of the technique, trying to find a way to get better. Whether it's this year, whether it's Year 18 here, I believe, with his mindset, he's going to understand, 'I got to find a way to get a little bit better.' That's what makes life a little easier for us, and a lot of fun knowing your best football player has that mindset. So everybody else is gonna believe that too."
Training camp for the Bills is in full swing at St. John Fisher University, with the first preseason game against the Chicago Bears coming up on Saturday Aug. 10.
